Best Quotes by John Constable (Top 6)

  1. I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
  2. Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?
  3. When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
  4. We see nothing till we truly understand it.
  5. An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.
  6. Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.